The Paterno family released a report rebutting claims that ex-Penn State coach Joe Paterno was complicit in covering up the Jerry Sandusky scandal. Comments from Facebook and Twitter:

The Paterno report had a predetermined conclusion. It is as believable as a Tobacco Institute report on the dangers of smoking.

Paul Owen

Joe Paterno is innocent! I am against sexual abuse, especially when it comes to children. I pray for those raped by Jerry Sandusky. But you can't delete more than 60 years of history without angering people.

Only one man deserves to suffer, and he's in prison for life.

Jordan Blackhawk Schubert

It may be that it is just that hard for some people to comprehend why Paterno would not go all out to protect children above all else.

@SportSXMichelle

"JoePa" did nothing wrong. The trustees should not have accepted one man's report as undisputed fact. JoePa reported the rumors. All he had was hearsay.

David Hillemann

Letter to the editor:

How naive does Joe Paterno's family think the general public and the NCAA are in publishing a self-serving report that the family paid for in their desperate attempt to whitewash his involvement in the Jerry Sandusky scandal?

We would have to believe that a respected figure such as ex-FBI director Louis Freeh would have had a bias in his investigation commissioned by Penn State's own Board of Trustees. Most significantly, we would have to believe that a coach who prided himself on attention to detail was kept in the dark by everyone else. Anyone with any common sense has to think that he just put his and his program's reputation above the safety of Sandusky's victims.

The most pathetic part of the Paterno family's effort is the continued attempt to paint the coach as the victim, rather than the countless unfortunate young men who were abused.